Extract Photos PalmyraThanks to Queen Zenobia who dared rebel against the Roman Empire, Cleopatra, Didone and Semiramide, St. Simeone Stilita the Old and the Archaeologist Khaled Asaad.Thanks to the Humanity of Palmira The desert’s bride, the Euphrates river’s water, the tall Palms that lined its course, the Humanity of the Krak des Chevaliers, Qalʿat Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn, the ruins of the Fortress of Simeone Qal’at Sim.an, the Humanity of the temple of Baalshamin, the Humanity of the temple of Baal.Palmyra, the city of palms, was the name of an ancient city of Syria, destroyed by the Arabs in the 6th century. It was an important caravan center on the Euphrates River, in the Syrian desert, where welfare and wealth were at everyone’s reach. The kingdom of Palmyra dates back to 267 BC. It was a place of tolerance, a crossroad of religions that lived together freely. Bet – Zabbai, the Aramaic name of Zenobia, means Zabbai’s daughter. In the Historia Augusta, she was represented as a chaste, charismatic, attentive and generous Queen who did not hesitate to take part in battles with his soldiers, either on horseback or on a chariot. Zenobia was very educated, she spoke Aramaic, Egyptian, Greek and Latin and nourished her court of intellectuals and philosophers. She wanted autonomy from the Roman Empire and wanted to gather under her kingdom Asia Minor and Egypt. She succeeded in stealing Arabia from the Romans with the help of the Parties. But in 272 a.c. she had to surrender to Rome Caput Mundi.Today the city of Palmira, and Syria, are the symbols of a conflict which has been raging since March 2011, date of an apparent uprising against President Bashar Assad, until that moment a praised representative of a safe and secular State, a sort of safety buffer at the doors of the hot middle East.Syria today is the stage of an international conflict, at the border between terror and the economic powers of the new cold war.A camouflaged civil war, unleashed in the scientific Jihadist fury and in the destructive violence of Al Qaeda, that today reveals itself beyond any doubt, in a war between two axis: the Gulf monarchies, Turkey, the U.S.A. antagonising Iran, and the Lebanese Sciite militias of Hezbollah, siding with Assad.The war doesn’t save anybody, it strikes above all the civilians, causing daily slaughters and massacres. The media and international politics seemed definite to overthrow President Assad when, on the 30th of September 2015, Russia intervened to support the troops of Damask. The scenery is complicated.Today in Syria a war is fought for proxy: the main powers involved – regional and intercontinental – use the people – the humanity of Palmira of the XXI symbol – as pawns and unintentional fighters.The victims’ number, according to the syrian observatory, is ever increasing: 312.000 casualties, 149.000 civilians, 16.000 children and thousand of fugitives. Numbers destined to increase every day that passes. The fugitives, the Humanity in transit – The Passengers – stolen of their daily life, unaware keepers of the testament of a glorious past, human shields of archaeological sites that make the international community shiver, are forced to escape and cross the Door – The Door – to abandon everything, slip in the dark of an unknown future and jump in the void – The Jump – of the Mare Internum Nostrum.